Transgender Day of Remembrance
Transgender Day of Remembrance is held on November 20. This event in the second decade of the month November is annual. 
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On November 20, the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, victims of assaults against transgender and transsexual people are commemorated worldwide. The TDOR was initiated in 1999 to commemorate Rita Hester - an African-American trans* woman who was stabbed to death in 1998.
Violence against trans* and gender non-conforming people is often linked to sexism, racism, xenophobia, classism, discrimination against sex workers and religiously motivated violence.
The commemoration is accompanied by chains of lights, art events, film screenings and funeral marches.
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